During the Great Depression you traveled around looking for work. From New York to Chicago with no luck. You’d heard about a steel mill in Pittsburgh who was hiring African Americans to make steel for cannon artillery guns. You hopped a train and were hired on the spot at the Sterling plant making armor plates for the front of artillery cannons. You weren’t treated as well as the white employees but you had a paycheck every month and you were helping your friends fighting on the front lines.
During the Great Depression you traveled around looking for work. From New York to Chicago with no luck. You’d heard about a steel mill in Pittsburgh who was hiring African Americans to make steel for cannon artillery guns. You hopped a train and were hired on the spot at the Sterling plant making armor plates for the front of artillery cannons. You weren’t treated as well as the white employees but you had a paycheck every month and you were helping your friends fighting on the front lines.